Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-04-15


! 70 Keep them from poisoning the air, will rot
| IN the face OF the sun at monday. Industry
In her plain trock will be unappreciated,
while thousands of men will wander in idle
ness, with their hands ON their hips, saying:
The world owes us a living o. what tire.
mendous power there is in iniquity when I'M
educated, and unrestrained, and unblanched
| II goes on concentrating and deepening and
widening, and gathering momentum until it
swings ahead with very triumph of desola-
ton, drowning like surges, scorching like
| flames, crushing like rocks! What are you
going to do with this abandoned population
Of the streetsi win you gather them in your
| Churches' Its not the Will of your Heavenly
Father that one OF these rrt'e ones
should perish If you have ten respectable
children in your class, gather in ten that are
not respectable. If in your Bibe-claSs there
be twenty young men who have come from
Christian homes and elegant surroundings,
let those twenty young men go out and
gather in twenty more of the young men of
the city who are lost to God and lost to So
ciety. This outside population, unless ed
Gated and restrained, will work ter
! ror In ages that are TO come
Years ago, at New Orleans, when the cholera
was raging fearfully, steamboat put out Just
before nightfall crowded with passengers
who were trying to escape from the
pestilenCc After the boat hal Ge-n out a
little while the engineer fell with the cholera
| 1
down among the passengers and asked:
us there any one here who knows
anything about englneeringp A Swarthy
man replied: II am an engineer "Wen,n
said the Captain, Il would be very
glad if you would take charge of this boat
The man went to the engine. The steamer
moved more rapidly, until, after awhile the
Captain and some passenger were alarmed,
and they went to see what was the mat
ter, and they found that this was maniac
! engineer, and that he was peeping
down the safety-valve; and, as they
came to him, he said: 81 am commissioned Of
Satan to drive this steamer to hellln and he
nourtshed his pistol, and would not come
down. But after awhile, through some
stratagem, he was brought from his position,
and the lives Of the passengers were saved.
o, my friends! that steamer had no such
peril as our institutions are threat
ened with, if the ignorant and
come up i'll their ignorance and their crime
to engineer our civil and religious institu-
tions, and drive them on the rocks. Educate
this abandoned population, or they will over
throw the institutions of this land Gather
them into your Sabbath-schools. l con-
gathered. Go forth, teachers in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
on the coming Sabbath may there be
found gathered scores and hundreds of these
wanderers, and instead Of eighteen hundred
in the Sabbath-school, we shall see three
thousand or four thousand, and the grace of
| God will come down upon Them and the Holy
Spirit will bring them all into the truth
Another characteristic of live church is
one with appropriate architecture. In the
far West and amid destitute population, Il
log church is very apprOpriate--the people
living in log houses. But in communities
where people live in comfortable ubodes Il
| in ic
q moral nuisance. Because Christ was born in
a manager is no reason why we should worship
Him i'll a barn. Let the churches Of Jesus
Christ be not only comfortable, but ornate.
Years ago we resolved to have comfortable
church. We resolved that it should be amphi-
theatrical IN shape. The prominent archi.
tects of the country, after figuring on the
matter a good while, said that such ii church
would not I've churchly, and they would have
nothing to do with the enterprise
But after awhile we found ali architect will
ing to risk his reputation. He put up for us
the first tabernacle, in amphitheatrical style.
We liked it. All who came liked it, This
building followed in the same style We be-
Iieve it is appropriate and adapted. An an
gular church will have an angular theology.
The Church Of Jesus Christ ought to be great
family circle, the pulpit only the fireplace,
around which they are gathered in sweet and
domestic communion. But when our first
tabernacle went up, o the caricature and the
SOOTHING They said: Its hippodrone
It's holy cirdus It's Talmages theatre {"
But the Lord came down with power upon
that old building, and made it gate of
heaven to great many. And this building
followed. That we were right in persiStiug
III the style of architecture is proved
by the fact that now there IRE sixty or
seventy churches in the United States
in the same style. Indeed our tabernacle has
revolutionized Church architecture in this
country. A live Church must have COM
modiouS, n comfortable, an adapted building
"How amiable are Thy Tabernacles, 0 Lord
of Hosts! would rather be a door-keeper iii
the house of my God than to dwell in the tents
of wckedness."
Again, the characteristic Of live church
must be that it is a Soul-saving church. 1t
must be the old Gospel of Christ "Ohn say
some people, the Gospel of Christ allows but
a small swing for Il mans faculties, and some
men have left the ministry with that idea "
One such said to Rowland Hill: II have
left the ministry because don't want to
hide my talents any longer" "Well," re-
piled Rowland Hill, 81 think the more you
hide your talents the better" Why, there is
no field on earth so grand as that which is
open before the Gospel ministry. Have you
powers of analysis! Exhaust them here. Have
you lInconquerable logic! Let it grapple with
Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Have
you strong imaginationl Let it dis
Johns Apocalyptic Vision. Have you great
power of pathOS! Exhaust it in telling the
story of u Saviour's love. Have You a bold
style Of thinkingl Then follow Ezekiels wheel,
full of eyes and hear through his chapters the
rush of the wings of the seraphim All We
who want grand field in which to work for
God, come into the Gospel ministry At
any rate, come into Christian circl eS,
and somewhere and somehow declare the
God q fOy1f fort
for all trouble. Eternal life for all the dead
0, my soul! preach it for ever. 1t has been
my ambition, and believe it has been yours,
my dear people, in these years of my
ministry, to have this soul-saving Church,
and we never yet threw out the Gospel net
but we drew in a great multitude. They
have come, hundred at a time and two
hundred and fifty at q time and | expect
the day will appear when, in some service,
there will be three thousand souls accepting
the offers Of eternal life. / wish I
could tell you the circumstances
that have come under my observation
proving the fact that God has blessed the
prayers of these people in behalf of souls i'm.
mortal could tell you of one night when
| stood at the end of the platform. and gen
tleman passed me- his cheek bronzed with the
sea, and as lie went into the inquiry-room
he said to me: II am an Englishman"
said: II am very glad to see you walk in"
That night he gave his heart to the Lord. 1t
was a clear case of quick but thorough con-
version. Passing out at the close of the in
quiry meeting, said; "How long have you
been in this countryP' He said: ~ arrived by
steamer this morning at eleven o'clock" said:
"How long will you be in the cityq He said:
VI leave tomorrow for Canada, and thence
go to Halifax, and thence to Europe and I'll
never be here again" l said; II think you
must have come to this country to have yorN
a hat w